Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both the Harvard Varsity and Freshman teams opened the 1937 season with a meet with Holy Cross. The Varsity won its first meet 26 to 31. Outstanding in that race was the finishing 400 yards in which Captain Erhard of the Crimson and Sullivan of Holy Cross widened the gap between them and the rest of the field in an effort to nab first place. Erhard was beaten by a matter of two yards, Sullivan breaking the old record for the course by nearly six seconds...
During the past week Maintenance Department workers have been getting ready for an asphalt path to run from the back door of Harvard diagonally to the gap between Stoughton and Hollis. Yesterday saw the crushed rock foundation...
...oats. This stopped the stalk from bending toward light. When Boysen Jensen glued the tip back on, the stalk started bending again, although only the tip was exposed to light. This indicated that some light-sensitive something was dribbling down into the stalk from the tip across the wound gap. The fact that a special substance, instead of a vague irritant, was involved was first clearly demonstrated by Paál of Hungary. In 1925 Seubert of Germany found plant-stimulating substances outside of plants-in saliva, pepsin, malt extract, diastase. These substances were christened "auxins...
Russell is the first string center, and as the only veteran on the center squad, his loss will be keenly felt. To help plug the gap, Dick Harlow has decided to move versatile Cliff Wilson to the trigger position from his post at guard. Although Rick Hedblom, Dan Cheever and Bill Coleman have developed fast his fall, they are not sufficiently seasoned to start a Varsity game. A bad case of nerves usually accompanies a debut into Varsity competition and is often costly. At the center post it is usually fatal...
...moved to a guard. Dick Harlow felt that there was little to choose between him and Boston, and that by such a shift both could be in the game at the same time. Now, with Russell's temporary withdrawal from competition, Wilson has again been used as a convenient gap-plugger. He has played center at Andover, and for a time on his Freshman eleven...